sioux

Noun
  1. A member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains (synset 109688830)
    is a type of: buffalo indian, plains indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
    subtypes:
    • biloxi - a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi
    • catawba - a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas
    • crow - a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana
    • dakota - a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux
    • dhegiha - any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages
    • gros ventre, hidatsa - a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota
    • iowa, ioway - a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri
    • missouri - a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
    • ofo - a member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi
    • oto, otoe - a member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska
    • eastern sioux, santee, santee dakota, santee sioux - a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux
    • lakota, teton, teton dakota, teton sioux - a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
    • tutelo - a member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina
    • winnebago - a member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people
    specific instances:
    • crazy horse, tashunca-uitco - a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)
    • rain-in-the-face - a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)
    same as: siouan

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